Synonyms for anneal
Definitions
- v. 1
To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
- v. 2
To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
Related words
- Word family
- annealer
- Other spellings
- aneal anele
Forms
- Past participle
- annealed
e.g. annealed → tempered, normalized, oiled, anointed…
Example sentences
- normalize They want to normalize that kind of behavior.
- harden Yanni waited for the resin to harden.
By length
- 3 letters
- oil1
- 6 letters
- temper2, harden2, anoint2, inunct
- 8 letters
- indurate
- 9 letters
- normalize3, normalise, embrocate, ruggedize, ruggedise
- 10 letters
- strengthen2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (temper2 = 2 syllables).